The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-27
Iyo,urn VIEW OF JOHN BROWN.
And H.w A.srchists Are Msde-EnT hsyer's
sharp Reply Go Felix Adier's Recent
Ch,ekerins Hall speech on John Brown.

ham Lincoln. In his Cooper Institute speech,
said. with hia characteristic charity for ALL"
"Johu Browns enort was peculiar. II was not = slave
,n,urrectiou. It was an attempt by white men to get mp
i. ,.voi, among slaves In which the slaves refused to
r.,,,eipa,e. In fact 1t was 20 absurd that the slaves In
III their Ignorance saw plainly enough It could not suc-
...d. That affair. In It's philosophy. corresponds with
,bc many attempts related In history at the assassina-
,,n OF kings and emperors. An enthusiast broods over
An, oppression OF . people till he fancies himself com
..,,s,oned by heaven to nberate them. He ventures the
.,,smpt, which ends In little else than his own exccu-
,,on. orsinis attempt on Louis Napoleon and John
browns attempt. at Harper's Ferry were in their phi.
,o.ophy. the same. Tho eagerness to cast blame on Old
England In the one case and on New England In the other
Ace. no, ~disprovs the sameness Of the two things"
II Is charity to rank Brown as q m~onomaniao
IN tho same list with Orsini. Guiteau. Booth.
and Freeman. But his admirers do not allow
,his. for It would ruin him as " a saint and mar
tyrn They contend not only that he was sane,
hut that no was q great moral hero. II we ad-
NIT his sanity. we must then regard him either
"a n felon or q flend. After he had proved
himself a robber. murderer, and traitor, and
while almost everybody was %denouncing him
"a such, the Garrison disunionists. under
whose tuition he had matured. Immediately
bepan his apotheosis. The files Of the Liberia
Tor and tho reported eulogies Of Wendell Phil
Inns, delivered whereverhe could get a hearing,
are sSSndsns i sSs9 w Ss sn dsll lsSts t To diseoyer
and ia tastes. It had been their work for . quar-.
iEsaa aus" with death and a covenant with HE'LL,
az; snd on sacI pSdpii1 nst GSSnsiSnS they f ~ saia e conaiSs Z!
s1espt VI d Il Sl% yar q I The 2 TnMlH s1' ,s IL th 36s
va, wss,r asals i the. SniG said i the Sssrsses bliI and
I'll. no,t F to saSciit s1nEs law va are str %s' ss th q root eS l% Of
moral sense. OF the country. but in fact they APP
and Tor nothing else. They asked the people to
escape the Iss m ms "a ba,n os ou so bo%ses as e sSic frs:
from cockrosches. They never seemedtohave
one impulse Of patriotism OF, one glimmer OF
%pustales on The body IpoolIticSthe' proof and the
effect OF the disease within. without any curing
ppo ews5i Se for ssn tso ssrri pse ssos stf 81 shs sn %s e IN IN
this country. They made 9 deity Of the prince
Of Anarchists, a colossus In crime, compares
cago we're only pigmies.,
It is no wonder. then, that the Anarchists 81
to-day a%cknowledge their rightfui king ahhd
Brown songs. This is the most appropriate
commentary we have yet hnd unon the char n
saint" Their eulosies found echoes in feeble
pulpit utterances and occasionally In public lee
lures. In this way the deadly virus OF anarchy
But what did John Brown dor In Kansas he
dragged from their beds at midnight three
W Wsh two tWo. sMS sps ]clea aver in such way that the
massacre was reported to be tho work OF wild
Indians, II any butcher : IN \ Ne ". YORK b city
and steers as John Brown hacked and slashed
to death these men and boys in Kansas. he
lay. After this Brown slew an unarmed. in
offensive farmer In Missouri. In his murder
GUS raid a, Harper's Ferry, the a5st man he
some weeks before this raid he had
Ing to enlist negroes in his little rebellion.
several places he professed to be a Pr. MeLain
slaves for this disease, by consent OF masters,
to whom he said that negroes were more sub
Ran h house he was a Presbyterian minister. He
remained one day and two nights and exam.
ined over forty slaves: He next visited a
Of government for the South, which was once
This feI plan provfded II that Brown Should Be mill.
tary commander-in:chtef in the negro govern
TO the above should be added the robbine OF
invasion Of Missouri, and the stealing Of about
and such valuable and portable property as he
could find. He was a merciless and most I'M
scTf4he e aSoy ssY Is q faint picture of the noble
John Brown" Much more Of the same import
could be given, but this ,is enough, except for
Anarchists who wish to become unrlValied ex-
pt After n bis is' Midnight murders in Kansas, all the
people 3b aGo ind GssaTa1t ond to ssRe @ea 20 ess
10 bring the "iends" to Justice. Here on, most
friendly terms met the free State and, the
Of such terrible crime. all partisan issues were
forgotten. The underlying brotherhood OF
man asserted itself in unity against an enemy Tnnyy
Brown. with Characteristic lying. denied that
he was present at this massacre. or that, he
tory Is now better established than the fact
that he was father OF the crime and the leader
We come now to- the consideration Of Felix
Adler's speech last Sunday In Chickering Hall.
This is the most marvellous and mysterious
s spshsShB re evsl a n @opo9 1s lssa' he ss Calls him GIo' an
Anarchist, and afterward finds reasons. for
and the personal. heroism which be exhibited
In the cause Of oppression. will ever. be a
i saSlG psS spa %0 No s1o WRas s ase NJ: 1 &, hes aR rea.
sons Tor this very strange concIuslon2
First, he says Brown had g prospect Of sub.
success than tbeSs va q sSst & ths chiieaso
s e s sSs!so% ses1s|e' IN II Flt sSsss At s sss sss,n saia:
brown ought 70 De hung Tor attempting TO
sHSERture virginia In the way he did" Henry
md Hay IN the Century have proved him what
Wilson called him. So much for his prospects
Of securing q better Government.
Mr.. Adler next. admires Brown for his ten
derness for his family. This tenderness most
mon have In common with the tiger and the
hyenA II does not make them heroes and
should not eject Prof. Adler to tears. as the re-
port says It did, because seen In Brown. On
one occasion In Ohio Brown developed this care
fGr his home much more el.boratsly than any
and sons.in.law and protected bis home
fSl IsSn.a t b. The aSo cGur. 70 sell Il kut T y sr0 WAS
was 80 good q protector OF his own children.
q 81 M xAf bos Sisy'.ai sMo b aSs % 4 lfo9d an pFq bsSFys
MMhon 10 hacked 70 Pieces IN cold blood; Next
How does he excel Spies and his comrades in
this2 They ran against Q halter, and, Brown
Old no more. Next Ibis personal heroism" Is
eqlogtzed. Was 1t personal heroism for him
with seven or eight armed assassins. under his
command. to butcher three men and two boys,
All unRrmed, In the way above described? AS
bad as the Chicago Anarchists may have been,
! do not think any OF them were capable of SO
eowardly q deed. In personal heroism John
Brown was much their inferior. ,.
These are all the main points In MI, Adler's